It is already known that housing market prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have been steadily rising for the past decade. Partially due to the financialization of housing, this creates unbalance and limits affordability, putting a strain on potential homeowners as well as those trying to sell their homes. Adding a global pandemic onto […]
Peter Vandergeest, an Asia specialist at Toronto's York University and founding director at the York Centre for Asian Research, is irritated that critics put the region's situation with the virus down to autocratic governments and an obedient population. He said that certainly doesn't apply to Thailand, a place he has often visited for his research […]
Courtesy of York University Created for Within mere days of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic, Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa, a PhD candidate in the sociology department at York University, had co-founded The People’s Pantry. The grassroots group’s mission is to support marginalized individuals affected economically by the pandemic – including queer, trans and BIPOC […]
Many people want to make an impact on the world. York alumni are no exception. Hear from our three of our incredible Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change grads and learn how York was pivotal to their success. Growing up on the island of St. Lucia, Neave Constantine (BES’19) saw a country with few natural […]
By Steven Tufts Mon., Nov. 9, 2020timer3 min. read Erin O’Toole’s recent statements recognizing the importance of private sector unions to building “strong communities” along with comments from other Conservatives have raised a few eyebrows. For some it will be dismissed as opportunistic economic nationalism. After all, we still have the rabid antiunionism of Jason Kenney in […]
They’re important for agriculture, but they’re not so good for the environment “Beekeeping is for people; it's not a conservation practice,” says Sheila Colla, an assistant professor and conservation biologist at Toronto’s York University, Canada. “People mistakenly think keeping honey bees, or helping honey bees, is somehow helping the native bees, which are at risk […]
How well do you know your bees? York University researchers have found bee knowledge in Canada lacking with about half of those surveyed thinking honey bees are wild and native to Canada. They’re not. They were brought over from Europe and are managed by beekeepers like other farm animals, such as dairy cattle for example, […]
Masters of Environmental Studies (MES) students at the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) participated at the annual Anita McBride Mentoring Workshop on Oct. 20, first-ever virtual offering of the event that brings students and alumni together for mentorship opportunities. The Anita McBride Mentoring Luncheon is an annual event for EUC students and alumni, historically consisting […]
Managing risk Critics have raised environmental concerns related to landfills, particularly with respect to possible groundwater contamination. It's a concern that Calvin Lakhan, a waste researcher at York University, can understand. "There's a lot of safeguards put in place to mitigate or completely avoid a lot of the environmental hazards that landfills could pose. With […]
When Gail Fraser received one of York University’s Academic Innovation Fund grants six years ago to change her Introduction to Environmental Science course from an in-person format to a blended style, little did she know that eventually, she would be delivering the entire course remotely. Thanks to the pandemic, Fraser – a professor and undergraduate program director in York’s […]